Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act

FOSTERING CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS AND INCREASING ADOPTIONS ACT OF 2008 -- (House of Representatives - September 17, 2008)

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Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Illinois.

I think what we need to be doing here today is continuing to alert the American people to what is not happening in terms of dealing with the energy situation in the United States.

Last night, House Democrats rejected any efforts on behalf of the Republicans to pass bipartisan energy legislation. They rejected our efforts to do that and they rammed through a sham, hoax, illusory, no-energy bill that falls way short of the all-of-the-above solution that the American people are demanding.

The bill passed by a vote of 236-189, and that should tell the American people how much opposition there was to this no-energy bill.

Even Democrats have indicated that this was the wrong bill. Senator Mary Landrieu has said that the bill is going to be dead on arrival in the Senate. So we know this was simply a vote, as has been publicized in Congressional Quarterly and other publications here in Washington, that was simply a cover for Democrats who are running for reelection.

Representative Gene Green said, ``I do not believe our bill goes far enough to address America's energy needs.''

Even they admit that what was done last night did not respond to the needs of the American people. We are going to continue to discuss this on this floor and even after the Congress adjourns. We also should point out that from the first of August until the end of December, this Democrat-controlled Congress plans to work 14 days. While Americans are facing the highest energy prices they have ever faced in this country, the Democrat-controlled Congress plans to be in session and work for 14 days in a 5-month period of time. That is shameless. That is unacceptable.

We need to be helping the American people by bringing down the price of gasoline. We can do that. Republicans have a bill that will do that. We even would support the bipartisan bill that we introduced last night, but that isn't good enough. All they want is a cover for their Members to go back home and say we voted to drill for more energy.

That's not true. By not revenue sharing, they're stealing money from the States who would opt in to do this.

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